The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-01-06
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The city Of Brooklyn. N. T.. derived
$4,000 revenue from dog licenses last
year.
The power for the electrical railroad
81 Toronto. Ont, costs only two dollars
q day.
A board Of trade will shortly be e.
LAblished in the city Of chihuahua,
Mexico
Young women have been employed
a. ticket agents on the Staten Island
railroad.
jay Gould has retired 50 often that
be is now called the Adelina Patti Of
Wall street
Mary Harper, q Cleveland servant
girl. has inherited $4,000 from .
relative in Philadelphia
Capitalists in Australia are talking
Of laying q cable 70 British Columbia
At q cost Of 100000.
The oldest type-settsr in Utica, N. T.,
has worked at the case iorty-nine yearss
and in one Office thirty years.
Dr. D0azias. who Il said 10 have lost
bis health IN caring for General Grant
hes E7ue S0uth b spead tbe winter
The late Mra A. I. Stewart left jewels
worth over thres-quGrters Of q million.
Il viii be observed that she left them.
Miss YoungbloOd Of Columbus Miss.
has been elected 70 the Chair Of Modern
Languages at Martha Washington Col
lege, Abingdon, Va
The CITY Of Mexico Ttro Republics
says . Mexican maiden near that city
recently gave birth to two children
fOrty-five days apart
The Canadian papers predict an enOr-
nous emigration Of young men and
tenant farmers from the old country to
the Dominion next year.
Wheeling, w. Va, Is about to try the
experiment Of burning her city gar
bage. rated 1t sixty tons per day.
through the medium Of natural gas
The Scotch shawl. instead Of over
coat aud the Highland cap and stream
ers make q fashionable costume worn
by some New York society young men.
The agents Of a Paris insurance CON-
pany have received instructions TO de-
cline taking risks on the lives Of people
who are in the habit Of dyeing hair or
beard.
The minister Of public instruction has
recently decided that no women shall
Be admitted as students. or allowed to
attend lectures in any Of the Prussian
universities
A New Orleans woman who operates
q box factory supports her own i've
children and also seven Others whom
she has adopted. She Is not rich, but
what she has she made herself
Princess Louise has q particular
charm Of manner in dealing with young
children, who meet her Overtures with
the instructive confidence Of little ones
who know they have found friend
The resemblance between Attorney
General Garland and First Comptroller
Durham is said TO be 50 great that they
can be distinguished only BY the diff
fsrent WAYS in which they crease their
hatA
Sarah Bernhard's reappearance in
Washington has been postponed till
March IS. The careful creature is prob
ably afraid 10 trust her delicate rsputa-
ton in that city while Congress Is In
session
Nine. Soalchi and her husband. Sig.
I.olll. have q delightful home near
Turin, which In their absence is praeti-
cally turned into = hospital and dis
psasGry Tor the poor people Of the ueigh-
borho0d. Il is called Sofia, after is
mistress.
Oae Of the largest tobOggan slides In
the world Is the one &C Saratoga. N. 7.
Il is 4 half mile long. and The sleds
cover the distance ia about nineteen
seconds A restaurant has been built
near the slide. and French cook will
have charge this winter.
Luis Mazzantini. the Spanish ball
fighter, now playing a star engage
ment IN Havana. Is a remarkably hand
some man. He is the best paid espada
nov in the arena. The ladies pronounce
ar. Lowell writes 70 thank q news
paper correspondent for calling his at
tention % q slip be made in the use
q the word ''POlileness" as Il 1t were =
derivation Of polls" 1T Is an over
sight" he SAYS. ''Of which ] should not
have been capable few years might
say q few months ago Till very lately
I never looked into an English diction-
airy % help me as % the meaning Of .
word and 70 correct certain tendency
70 heier0phasid 10 borrow the late Dir.
Grant Whits's useful word) which had
detected in myself"
Thaddeus Fowler. who died recently
In Seymour. Conn, was q most prolific
inventor. He invented machines for
sticking pins in paper; Cor manufaelur-
ing iron pins; for sorting pins; for max
ing pins. head and all at q single
stroke; for making neesiles; for pointing
wire; for making horseshoe nails. and
Cor stamping metal He also invented
q reapiug and binding machine and the
''ssWing-bird" used on ladies WORK
sRhleA he had little business ability